africans

[NjOyRiD]

with is the diference between Lake Malawie, Lake victoria and lake tang...? thanx

[328iGuy]

with is the diference between Lake Malawie, Lake victoria and lake tang...? thanx

Largest difference is water parameters.  

[luvfishies]

And behaviour of the fish

[NjOyRiD]

ok what are the water chemistry diference and how do i know, jus by looking the fish..where its from?

behavior: is it like peaceful, semi agressive..agressive? does that work like that?

[mseguin]

You can't really know, just by looking at the fish. There are some characteristic fish, but there are lots of exceptions, from what I've seen. And there's not much left in Lake Victoria, the Nile perch has taken care of that.

[maitre007]

The thing about african cichlid is that they say there is like 200 different species in each of the lakes.    However the number of different genus are quite smaller.

For example you have you have your basic haps in 50 different types of combination of colors in Lake Victoria and Malawi.  And then you have your pseudotropheus in Malawi which also have 100 different type of combination of colours.

That is why the african cichlids much like the finches have been the perfect animal to ellaborate on darwin theory of evolution.

The tanganikyan cichlids are much smaller than the one in Malawi and Victoria and then tend to stay at the bottom of the aquarium and inside the rocks as opposed to on top of aquarium as do the malawi.

As term of aggressive, it's all relative.  I mean my brichardi are probably the most ruthless specie in my tank but the manifestation of their aggressiveness is not as apparent to to their size.

Then you take my cichlid from victoria, hap c44 and the astosomething nubila.  One again these two species demonstrates the retentive nature of the taxitologist whatever they are call whose responsibility is to attribute a latin name to species.

They are almost identical except when they are really showing off their colours.  They are always fighting.  That is why my nublius has about 20% of the aquarium all to himself.  

In regards to the water parameters ... my take is that unless you have fishes that are taken from the wild ... they adjust to any constant aquarium condition.

[NjOyRiD]

thanx you very much that helped me a lot

[NjOyRiD]

habitat of those 3 lakes a re the same..just rocks with caves?

[pegasus]

habitat of those 3 lakes a re the same..just rocks with caves?

Yes